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Actuarial Post have covered the first-hand account that Mr Chirag Bahri gave to underwriters at the Joint War Committee event in Lloyd’s of London. Read the full story here Click here to read our own coverage of the event

LONDON, 30 May 2013 – Underwriters at the Lloyd’s of London insurance market have heard a vivid first-hand account of the plight of seafarers taken hostage by modern-day pirates. Mr Chirag Bahri was second engineer on a chemical tanker, M.T, Marida Marguerite, which was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on 8 May 2010. Forced [...]

Insurance Day have written about the Joint War Committee (LMA & IUA) event ‘Surviving Captivity in Somalia: Chirag Bahri – a Hostage’s Story’ which was sponsored by Liberty Syndicates. Click here to read the full article (Subscriber access only) Click here to read our own coverage of the event

Chirag Bahri, an engineer on the M.T. Marida Marguerite which was seized by pirates on 8 May 2010 in the Gulf of Aden, gave a personal account of what he endured as a hostage when he was held in captivity for nearly eight months in very poor conditions. Rob Henbury of Liberty Syndicates acted as [...]

Sitting at an underwriting box in the Room at Lloyd’s, surrounded by the hubbub of brokers and underwriters going about their business, it’s all too easy to place a mental distance between oneself and the risk one is underwriting. Not in a professional sense, you understand: the nature of underwriting at Lloyd’s demands a high [...]